The way I feel about you will never change. Of course I love you—and there's nothing you can do about it!” “That's all I needed to hear.

For a second I was just a kid – a kid who had lived all of his life in the same tiny town. Just a child. Because I knew I would have to live a lot more, suffer a lot more, to ever understand the searing agony in Edward’s eyes.

You are safe inside your mind. No one can reach you there.

I'd been broken beyond repair.

Bella?" a different voice called from the distance. No! Please let me be imagining that horribly familiar voice.

She looked around herself, disoriented, like she’d forgotten we were at lunch. Like she’d forgotten we were even at school-surprised that we were not alone in some private place. I understood that feeling exactly. It was hard to remember the rest of the world when I was with her.

Don't worry?! You sliced your hand open!